Whose war, and why? Oil, Oil, Oil

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.questionsquestions.net/p04_why_war.html

9/11 was a frame-up... but if so, cui bono? Who gains?


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Oil, Oil, Oil

The US strategy to achieve control of the petroleum and natural gas deposits of Central Asia has now become quite obvious, and officials are not even trying to hide it. Dissecting the ulterior motives of this "war for oil" has become a rallying point for dissenters. Not everyone is bold enough to draw attention to the fact that the war was actually planned well before 9/11, but many are quite ready to argue that the U.S. is at least taking advantage of the "War on Terrorism" after the fact to obtain a new fix for its
high-stakes petroleum addiction.

Players on a rigged grand chessboard: Bridas, Unocal and the Afghanistan pipeline
by Larry Chin
Part 1: Unocal and the Afghanistan Pipeline
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI203A.html
Part 2: The Bush Administration's Afghan Carpet
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI203B.html

Pipelineistan
by Pepe Escobar
Part 1: The Rules of the Game
http://atimes.com/c-asia/DA25Ag01.html
Part 2: The Games Nations Play
http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/DA26Ag01.html

It's the oil pipeline, stupid!
by Peter Dale Scott
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12548

The Background is Oil
http://www.copvcia.com/members/dec2001_files/background_is_oil.html (subscription required)
This is an excellent analysis of the oil situation, explaining not only the situation in Central Asia but also the central role that petroleum plays in all of the world's economies, underlying the power structure itself, and why the threat posed by the incipient decline in overall production points to ever-increasing international conflict. (It is well worthwhile to get a subscription to FTW to read this and other articles. That site deserves support!)

A documentary broadcast on Radio Netherlands on November 12 points out a startling connection between outbreaks of radical Islamic Wahabbism and areas where the oil industry has interests. According to political scientist Salih Brandt, this is no accident:


"Now strife and dissent and chaos and anarchy on a local level is extremely useful for the global corporations because it enables them to move in wherever they want. And we've seen this in East Timor, we're seeing it now in Aceh, we've seen it in Chechnya, we've seen it in Bosnia, Kosovo. And fundamentalist terrorism serves that purpose absolutely. I mean you could say in a sense that fundamentalist terrorism fits in hand and glove with the needs of the global capitalist entities and the corporations . . . Four of the people arrested in the United States in connection with the whole thing of the September 11th... or arrested on the back of that... were people with whom George W. Bush's oil company had had previous oil dealings."

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1. There's occupation at ANWR

or there will be soon. The cabal is ready for an "aleya" to ANWR.